Plants need light to grow. However, due to excess nutrients and/or the absence of herbivores less light can reach lower vegetation layers in grasslands. Consequently, few fast-growing species dominate ...

The film discusses the essential needs for plant growth, highlighting the importance of water, light, minerals, air, and warmth. It presents various experiments demonstrating how these elements affect ...

A mutant seedling revealed how plant tissues scatter incoming light, allowing plants to sense its direction and move toward it. On a shelf lined with terra cotta pots, herbs bend their stems toward ...

A jade plant communicates its needs. What do we owe our house plants beyond light and water? It’s a question that Milwaukee filmmaker Jesse McLean asks in a new experimental documentary, Light Needs.

The team of researchers led by Prof. Dr. Anu Eskelinen from the University of Oulu (Finland) used the Global Change Experimental Facility (GCEF) at the UFZ research station in Bad Lauchstädt for their ...